miniCUP Tokyo 2025 will be held on October 14th, 2025
OpenEye's miniCUP series brings our latest scientific advancements to you. Our upcoming miniCUP Tokyo is a single-day in-person gathering that will provide the opportunity to hear presentations from OpenEye and industry speakers, as well as to learn about the recent updates to the Orion® molecular design platform and our applications and toolkits. Come for the science, and stay for robust discussion at a cocktail reception following the event.
Location:
Station Conference Tokyo
100-0005 1-7-12 Sapia Tower
Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Event Agenda:
10:00 Registration & Coffee/Tea
Foundations:
10:30 Opening remarks – Louis Culot, CVP, Molecular Sciences Group
11:00 Molecular shape and color: Unifying principles for success in drug discovery – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist
11:30 Understanding and Predicting the Membrane Permeability of CyclicPeptides Based on Large-Scale Data - Shinsuke Sando, The University of Tokyo
Networking Lunch
Platform Advances:
13:00 Empower your chemists with interactive Molecule Search – Koji Oda, Application Scientist
13:15 Click. Compute. Cure? Enabling modern computational design – Jeff Grandy, VP Sales
Target Exploration:
13:30 Pocket ligandability: identifying actionable cryptic pockets across the druggable proteome – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director
14:00 Identification & exploration of novel sites for covalent docking – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director
Coffee/Tea break
Hit Identification:
15:00 Don’t miss your next blockbuster: ROCS X for trillion-scale 3D virtual screening of accessible and novel chemical space – Matt Geballe, Group Director, Scientific Research and Development
15:30 OMEGA: State of the art conformer generation with Bayesian sampling – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development
Coffee/Tea break
Lead Discovery & Optimization:
16:30 Boltz2 benchmark on in-house dataset: thinking of how to effectively use in drug discovery campaigns - Akitoshi Okada, Daiichi Sankyo
17:00 ML-Enabled integration of affinity prediction and lead discovery: 3D-QSAR – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist
17:30 Free energy prediction for drug discovery: Ideas at breakfast, discoveries by lunch – Chris Neale, Manager Affinity Group
Closing & Reception:
18:00 Closing Remarks
Reception: Cocktails and refreshments
Registration for miniCUP Tokyo is now open. Reserve your spot today!
